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 Arts, Media & Culture News with 'tude
A recent reminder about the "incredible translation job" done on Mary Beach's Die Elektrische Banane by Walter Hartmann and Gregor Pott got me to thinking that somebody should say it: James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake meets William Burroughs' Naked Lunch in that book.
 There's not a whole lot of hand-shaking going on in Hollywood
Fist bumps, air-hugs and partial high-fives are all common currency in Los Angeles now, writes Celia Walden.
 Updated impressions of Rage
A lone man struggles to the surface from a vault deep underground, wearing the garb of a long-dead civilization. Earth is an arid wasteland, packed with warring bandit tribes and mutants, as the survivors of a world-wide disaster struggle to stay alive day-to-day.